Grace C Block 5 English II Theme 1 by https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9 Stuff en-us 2019-04-26 16:35:42 UTC 2026-01-31 00:52:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Theme gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357453706 An individual's or community's struggle to adapt to change while simultaneously upholding or revoking traditions can lead to despair.]]> 2019-05-07 02:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357453706 Entry 1 Lack of Change Despite Traditions gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357454523 "But Okonkwo was not the man to stop
beating somebody half-way through, not
even for fear of a goddess" Here Okonkwo is refusing to change his usual behavior despite it being the time of  peace. This ends up costing him greatly when he has to repent for his actions.]]> 2019-05-07 02:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357454523 Entry 2 Tradition Death and Illness Video gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357457812 https://youtu.be/TZI-FayZkvg 
In the above video it talks about the Ebola outbreak. Mentioning in one part how the narrtor's grandpa had to forgo several burial traditions in order to stop the spead of the disease. This is similar to how, as mentioned in chapter 3, Okonkwo's father had to be buried in a different way due to contracting an illness. Both had to change and adpat due to Illness and as a result had a harder time sending their family members to the next life.]]> 2019-05-07 03:18:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357457812 Entry 3 Changing his son to Uphold Belifes gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357459954   “Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed. Okonkwo wanted his son to be a great farmer and a great man. He would stamp out the disquieting signs of laziness which he thought he already saw in him.” Due to Okonkwo's lackluster upbringing he's trying to instill both his and the villages beliefs in his son. As a result he is causing his son a great deal of distress since he's his perceived laziness is considered unacceptable, and needs to change.]]> 2019-05-07 03:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357459954 Entry 4 Revoking Tradition gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357460830 “Unoka, the grown-up, was a failure. He was poor and his wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him” Anoka does not uphold The village's traditional values and as a result he's perceived as a failure by others. He adapts to this by continuing his usual pattern of behavior and upholding the ideals that he enjoys or that suit his needs.

]]> 2019-05-07 03:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357460830 Entry 5 Situational Change gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357462104 After raising Ike as his own for about three years okonkwo is forced to allow him to be slaughtered because “Umuofia has decided to kill him. The Oracle of the Hills and the
Caves has pronounced it.” As a result he must grapple with killing the boy who calls him father in the name of tradition.]]> 2019-05-07 03:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357462104 Entry 6 Homesickness gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357463172 “His own home had gradually become very faint and distant.” Ike's adapts to the change in his environment, after being forced into an entirely different village thanks to his father's misdeeds, by adopting their traditions and adapting his own. As a result he ends up distancing himself from his previous life.]]> 2019-05-07 03:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357463172 Entry 7 Refusing Re-evaluation and Change hile Simultaneously Shaming Others for Their Lack of It gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357465286 In chapter 8, Okonkwo is assisting in the bargaining of his friends bride price. While doing so the group bashes other villages methods of negotiating bride prices while simultaneously ignoring is the thought that possibly brides should not be sold off as commodities. a change in which their traditional values would greatly contradict. This relates to the image since the couple is worrying about the effect of gay marriage towards that of traditional marriage while simultaneously and completely ignoring the fact that divorce exist and that's probably a bigger threat. Both parties refuse to acknowledge the fact that it is possible that they might need to change, in favor of traditional values, which leads to despair of others.]]> 2019-05-07 04:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357465286 Entry 7 Image gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357465817 2019-05-07 04:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357465817 Entry 8 Love vs Fear gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357466736 “Having sworn that oath, she sat  down on a stony ledge and waited.”Okonkwo's second wife is forced by tradition to sit at the mouth of the cave waiting for her child to re-emerge with the priestess all the while she has no idea what is going on. She is deeply upset by this change in events, her daughter going from healthy, to sick, to being taken away for no apparent reason but still feels obligated to follow the rules set in place by her ancestors.]]> 2019-05-07 04:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357466736 Entry 9 Article gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357467583 https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1225779?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE=#referrer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s&ampshare=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/children-of-immigrants-caught-between-2-cultures-1.1225779
In the article it details the struggles of second-generation immigrants and their delicate balance between their two cultures both inside and outside their home. This relates to how both Okonkwo and his children have to deal with balancing their own beliefs, ideals, and values with the traditions of those in the village. And how they have to adapt, and change them based on external events here. This can be observed throughout the story.]]> 2019-05-07 04:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357467583 Entry 10 Coping with Death gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357468391 “Nwoye knew that Ikemefuna had been killed, and something seemed to give way inside him, like the snapping of a tightened bow.” Nwoye is forced to cope with the recent death of Ike and still not show his emotions due to being a man.]]> 2019-05-07 04:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/357468391 Entry 11 Questioning Tradition gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360026865 “Why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? But although he thought for a long time he found no answer.”Here we see Unchedu expressing his disapproval of how Okonkwo is being treating, thinking that someone shouldn't be punished for a crime they did not choose to commit. However, he decides to not do anything about it because, despite the suffering it has caused, the exiling is tradition.]]> 2019-05-14 17:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360026865 Entry 12 A Fear of Change gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360030242 ”The elders consulted their Oracle and it told
them that the strange man would break their clan and spread destruction among them.” This quote is an example of both the fear of change, expressed through the oracles drastic action, and their unquestioning willingness to follow the oracle. When you have been taught all your life that something is infallible then you tend to have difficulty questioning it, and have a tendency to fear any change that could threaten it. This drastic action, however, ends up costing them their lives.]]> 2019-05-14 17:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360030242 Entry 13 Threats gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360032963 ”If any one of you prefers to be a woman, let him follow Nwoye now while I am alive so that I can curse him. If you turn against me when I am dead I will visit you and break your neck.” 
Okonkwo is afraid of the white man changes and new religion so he threatens his children saying that if they adopt the new religion he will punish them greatly. This shows just how stubborn and afraid of this new religion Okonkwo is, since, as of this moment, to his knowledge , they have done little harm.
]]> 2019-05-14 17:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360032963 Entry 14 Embracing The New Religion gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360035811  “And even in the matter of religion there was a growing feeling that there might be something in it after all, something vaguely akin to method in the overwhelming madness.” The people of Okonkwo's homeland are beginning to think that there might be some reason, and sense to this new religion. They are starting to embrace the change, however they are still wary of it and no not of the possible pitfalls associated with these new people.]]> 2019-05-14 17:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360035811 Entry 15 Refusal To Learn gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360037175 “We cannot leave the matter in his hands because he does not understand our customs, just as we do not understand his. We say he is foolish because he does not know our ways, and perhaps he says we are foolish because we do not know his. Let him go away.”Here we see how both parties are refusing to learn more about one another and change causing conflict.]]> 2019-05-14 18:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360037175 Entry 16 Forced Government gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360041430 In this photo we can see how the government officials are ignoring the Native Americans rights as a sovereign people and simply selling of their land. This relates to how the new government is ignoring their traditions and laws and instead forcibly appling their own. This can be seen in both Chapter 23 when they use their own laws to punish Okonkwo and crew, and earlier on when the practice is mentioned in passing]]> 2019-05-14 18:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360041430 Entry 17 Alination gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360044240 This image is meant to represent how an individual can feel alienated and as a result become suicidal. This relates to how Okonkwo feels that his culture, his home, has changed so much that it is no longer his home and as a result, feeling alienated and alone, due to the changes, commits suicide in chapter 25.]]> 2019-05-14 18:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360044240 Entry 18 Adaptation gracec36626 https://padlet.com/gracec36626/8w1cvb9c4z9/wish/360047384 In the article it explains how India has had to adapt to foreigners settling in their country and adjust their caste system. This relates to how Mr. Brown adapts and explains his religion based on the tribes religious beliefs, in chapter 21, adjusting it to accommodate their unique beliefs and goals.
https://www.britannica.com/place/India/The-Shunga-kingdom#ref485367
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